And since I’m on the subject of the NYTimes, here is another interesting quote. Trump is being asked whether the US should have anything to say about violations of human rights in Turkey:
“I don’t think we have a right to lecture,” Mr. Trump said in a wide-ranging interview in his suite in a downtown hotel here, while keeping an eye on television broadcasts from the Republican National Convention. “Look at what is happening in our country,” he said. “How are we going to lecture when people are shooting policemen in cold blood?”
What’s really curious is that I heard this before verbatim, including the insistent repetition of the word “to lecture.” This is one of the favorite arguments of one V. Putin. Anybody who listens to Russian news would recognize the vocabulary and the turn of phrase immediately. I got goosebumps when I saw it.
My explanation is that these lines are being fed to Trump by Manafort. Manafort worked for Putin in Ukraine and had many opportunities to hear these very famous lines. Gradually, they sank in and now he has unwittingly passed them on to his new candidate. It’s not a conspiracy or anything but the end result is that Putin has a major candidate for US presidency say exactly what Putin himself always says about the US.
“What right do they have to lecture?” Putin asks.
“What right do we have to lecture?” a US presidential candidate obediently echoes.
Creepy as hell.
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What’s more creepy is that the republicans who never tire of telling us that Obama has destroyed the reputation of this country by constantly apologizing to the world, elect a guy who talks like this.
After Obama being black, this is their biggest gripe with him. Because he’s a Kenyan socialist he doesn’t ‘get’ how great this country is.
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Of course, after “let’s hand nukes to anybody who wants them” this is small potatoes but still, it’s part of the general sloppiness and carelessness of this whole campaign.
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